Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel - A Simple Desultory Philippic guitar tab

A Simple Desultory Philippic - Simon and Garfunkel

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Subtitled "Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission".

From "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme".

Transcribed by John Kean (keanj@agresearch.cri.nz).

Drop D tuning (DADGBE).

No capo.

4/4 time.

INTRO RIFF:

D

, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .

||-----------------|-----------------|----10-----------|-10---------------||

||-----------------|-----------------|-----7-----------|--7---------------||

||-----------------|-----------------|-----7-strum-----|--7-strum---------||

||-0---0-----------|-----------------|-----7-----------|--7---------------||

||---------3---3---|-0---0-----------|-----------------|------------------||

||-----------------|---------3h5-3---|-0---------------|------------------||

INTRO: (Intro riff x2)

VERSE 1:

D (intro riff)

I been Norman Mailered, Maxwell Taylored.

D (intro riff)

I been John O'Hara'd, McNamara'd.

G F G A

I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled 'til I'm blind.

D

I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded

G

Communist, 'cause I'm left-handed.

A D (bar7)

That's the hand I use, well, never mind!

VERSE 2: (as before)

I been Phil Spectored, resurrected.

I been Lou Adlered, Barry Sadlered.

Well, I paid all the dues I want to pay.

And I learned the truth from Lenny Bruce,

And all my wealth won't buy me health,

So I smoke a pint of tea a day.

INTERLUDE:

D G

I knew a man, his brain was so small,

A

He couldn't think of nothing at all.

D

He's not the same as you and me.

G

He doesn't dig poetry.

A

He's so unhip that when you say Dylan,

D

He thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas,

G

Whoever he was.

A

The man ain't got no culture,

But it's alright, Ma, everybody must get stoned.

VERSE 3: (as before)

I been Mick Jaggered, silver daggered.

Andy Warhol, won't you please come home?

I been mothered, fathered, aunt and uncled,

Been Roy Haleed and Art Garfunkeled.

I just discovered somebody's tapped my phone.

ENDING: (repeat intro riff to fade)

CHORDS:

D : 057775

D (bar7) : 00777(10)

G : 5x5433

F : 3x3211

A : 7x7655

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